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...leading the hit parade: Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope are on both the New York Times' hardcover and paperback best-seller lists, no mean authorial feat. (Dreams is No. 1 on the paperback list after a staggering 133 weeks.) Books by more than a dozen other authors on the Times lists retell the tale of the Obama campaign, evaluate the man or set out his life story. There's no mystery as to why new Obama books keep popping up in the nation's bookstores; at this time of declining book sales, that is one brand...
...Publishers Weekly. "She's a figure of interest to political people, to women, to the African-American community, to the international community." Last March, before her husband had even won the Democratic Party's nomination, the New York Observer reported that Michelle Obama had been approached by "over a dozen" publishers to write a book. Calls were going through Washington superlawyer Bob Barnett, who represented the President for Audacity. Interest has only intensified since then, but the First Lady's office is in lockdown when it comes to that subject. "There are no book deals in the works...
Colombia's Marxist guerrillas probably rue the day they kidnapped state legislator Sigifredo Lopez and his colleagues. Disguised as police agents, the rebels stormed a government building in the southern city of Cali in 2002, announced a bomb threat and then herded a dozen lawmakers, including Lopez, aboard a bus and drove them into the mountains. But the operation ended up in one of the ghastliest blunders of Colombia's four-decade-long civil war. In June 2007, guerrilla guards mistakenly thought they were under attack by the army and, in a panic, executed 11 of the hostages. Lopez alone...
...Perhaps inadvertently, that statement said much about the reasons piracy remains such a problem off Somalia: The 20-odd warships from more than a dozen nations patrolling those waters have largely held off from attacking pirates or trying to free ships. The pirates, in fact, went unhindered the day they left the Faina, and there has apparently been no effort to capture them...
...connections, facilitating the transition from the classroom to the studio. Harvardwood arranges conferences and seminars while compiling alumni contact information in an online directory, accessible to all members. Harvardwood 101—a yearly trip to Los Angeles over that takes place over intersession—offers two dozen current students a glimpse at the industry they hope to enter. Last month, students on the trip met with a wide range of professionals—from agents and writers to Robert M. Kraft ’76, the chief executive of Fox Music. “We were bussed around...